Books from Sceptre
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The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
By Noreena HertzThe Lonely Century offers a hopeful and empowering vision for how to heal our fractured communities and restore connection in our lives
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The Bone Clocks
By David MitchellMetaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas.
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The Fatal Tree
By Jake ArnottAs the gallows casts its grim shadow, who will live to escape the Fatal Tree? By the acclaimed author of THE LONG FIRM, this is a tour de force; inventive, atmospheric and rich in the street slang of the era.
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
By Siri HustvedtThe essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts.
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Jewels: A Secret History
By Victoria Finlay... and Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl: the History, Art, Science and Industry of the Queen of Gems, first published 1905, New York, Dover Publications, 1993. Labarge, Margaret Wade, Medieval Travellers: the Rich and the ...
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American Fever
By Dur E. Aziz AmnaRarely does a book sharpen how you see the world around you, but American Fever does just that.
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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By Clare Hunter**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history'...
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Everyone Brave is Forgiven
By Chris CleaveIan McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven' Financial Times
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Nabeel's Song
By Jo TatchellNABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a...
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A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City
By Jo TatchellIn this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate's dramatic development and the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people and their desert culture.
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The Daughters of Mars
By Thomas KeneallyAt once epic in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings the First World War to vivid life from an unusual perspective.
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The Soldier's Return
By Melvyn Bragg'Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful' Independent Books of the Year When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the 'Forgotten War' in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed.
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Nine Lives
By Goldie, Paul GormanThe inspirational autobiography by one of the most fascinating figures in the music industry.
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How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
By Tristan Gooley' Wall Street Journal 'This study of rivers, lakes, puddles and seas brims over with astonishing facts...His observational skills can be breathtaking' Sunday Times 'This is an absolute gem of a book.
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
By Giles MiltonThis is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder.
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them...
By Hector TobarAn electrifying, empathetic work of journalism that makes a four-year-old story feel fresh' Kirkus, starred review Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar offers the definitive account of a heart-stopping survival story: the 2010 ...
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Consumed: A Sister’s Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021
By Arifa Akbar*** SHORTLISTED for the 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY, PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE and the JHALAK PRIZE *** 'Moving, engrossing, elegantly written' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ...
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Get Smashed: The Story of the Men Who Made the Adverts That Changed Our Lives
By Sam Delaney'Get Smashed' is a story of ambition, obsession and excess and how the ads that began by reflecting British culture came to define it.
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Citoyens
By Tomas TranstromerCitoyens
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The Number Bias How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us
By Sanne BlauwEven if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person.